The sources of variation in the human genome and genome instability in human cancers.

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The human genome is viewed as a stable collection of about 60,000-70,000 genes--a minority of protein--coding DNA sequences--dispersed in a large majority of noncoding DNA sequences--more than 90 per cent of the entire genome sequences. Some of these ubiquitous noncoding DNA sequences, metonymically called "parasitic DNA," "ballast DNA," "selfish DNA" or "extra DNA," especially, the repeated sequences tandemly...

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